Norman Spinrad Quotes
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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For theologians groaning under the oppression of demands to justify their discipline before the bar of what is supposed to be universally valid scientific method the appeal of non-foundationalism is immense. It liberates a celebration of the rights of particularity. It enables the theologian to say that theological method must be different from other methods because it shapes its approach from the distinctive content with which it has to do - just as, indeed, other disciplines shape their approaches in the light of their distinctive content. Non-foundationalism, that is to say, is a way of advocating the autonomy of distinct intellectual disciplines.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.
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What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
